Buckle



@et 30, 1923. M7225@ L. H. ROUNSEVILLE BUCKLE Filed Feb. 9, 1925 @Worsley Patented @et 30, l923 unirse stares PATENT @FF i.

LUCA H, ROUNSEVILLE, OF ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO C. A. MARSH it COMPANY, FIRM COMPOSED OIF WILLIAM E. ROUNSEVILLE, AND GEORGE L. SHEPARDSON, BOTH OF ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUCKLE.

i Application led February 9, 1923.

To all whom t may concern.'

Y Be it known that I, LUCA HERBERT ROUN- SEVILLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Attleboro, inthe county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckles, of which the following is a specification. p This invention relates to buckles more l@ particularly adapted for adjustably securing a belt about the body of the wearer, and the object of this invention is to provide a buckle of this character having a gripping member formed of sheet stock bent, swaged or folded into the desired `shape and having a bail member rigidly attached thereto to which the opposite end of the belt is secured, whereby the adjustable end of the belt may be bound or clamped against the inner face of the body of the buckle.

With these and othel` objects in View, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, as will be more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the @S5 appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a view of the inner face of a buckle of my improved construction.

Figure 2 is a detailed view in perspective W of the bail member. Y

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the blank from which the clamping member is folded.

Figure 4 is a perspective view illustrating M one edge of the clamping member as partially bent into shape.

Figure 5 shows the clamping member as swaged into substantially trough shape to provide two spaced apart belt gripping m edges.

Figure 6 illustrates the clamp as having one edge rolled to form a pivot-receiving loop therein.

Figure is a perspective view showing t5 the bail member as secured to the clamping member by solder or otherwise.

Figure 8 is a central sectional view of the buckle showing a belt as clamped therein.

It is found in practice of advantage to tl@ provide a clamping member for belt buckles of this character, formed of sheet stock, the v same having a plurality of spaced-apart gripping edges located at different distances from its pivoting axis whereby belts of dif- Serial N0. 618,140.

ferent thicknesses may be gripped and bound in the body of the buckle; and the following is a detailed description of one construction of buckle by which this result may be ob- Y vinto substantially trough shape, one edge being rolled inwardly as at 15 to provide an elongated bearing for the pivot pin 13, whereby the clamp is pivotally mounted in the body of the buckle between the edge walls 11.

The opposite side wall of this clamp is turned upwardly as at 16 and is spaced from the wall having the rolled edge, and the working bottom wall of the trough is shown as being longitudinally grooved to provide two spaced apart gripping edges 17 and 18 which are located at di'erent distances from the pivotal axis on which the gripper swings to accommodate and grip belts of diiierent thicknesses. I do not wish to limit the gripper to two gripping edges as it may be provided with any desired number of such edges.

In order to provide means by which the opposite end 19 of the belt 2O may be secured to the buckle, I have provided a bail member 21 which may be cut from sheet stock, preferably of athickness greater than that of the clamping member the same being of a shape to receive the end 19 of the be t.

In order to rigidly secure this bail member to the clamping member, I abut its inner edge 22 against the face of the roll 15 and secure the same thereto preferably by solder. In this position the under face of the bail rests against the edge 23 of the clamp and is also secured thereto by solder thus providing a, double bearing and fastening for the bail whereby it is more rigidly secured to the clamping member at two spaced apart points, which effectually prevents the bail from being torn from its fastenings by any strain which may be brought Htl to bear upon it by a pull on the belt or by forcing it either to or from gripping p0- sition.

The different binding edges of my improved gripping member are shown as being formed on the arc of a circle on their gripping edges to conform to the correspondingshape of the inner surface of the body of the buckle so that upon engaging the belt it forces the same to conform tothe contour of' the body of the buckle and in so doing renders more effective the holding power of the gripper.

My improved buckle is yextremely simple and practical in construction and effective in its action.

The foregoing description is directed solely towards the construction illustrated, but I desire it to be understood that I reserve the privilege of resorting to all the mechanical changes to which the device is susceptible,` the invention being defined and limited only by the terms of the appended claims.

I claim: f

l. A buckle comprising a body portion, a clamping member formed of sheet stock having one edge rolled to form a pivot bearing by Which it is pivoted in said body and 80 the body of said clamp being shaped to form nesses, the opposite edge of said member bepivotal axis to grip belts of different thicki ing out-turned andspaced forwardly from Y the rolled edge thereof, and a. bail member being supportedon and secured to said rolled edge and said spaced edge of said clamp.. Y

3. A buckle comprising a body portion, a clamping member formed. of sheet stock bent into trough shape, itsbottom Wall being` grooved to provide tWo spaced apart belt-gripping edges, the edge of one side Wall being rolled to form an elongated pivi ot-receiving bearing. and a bail member se` cured to both the rolled edge'andY to the edge of the opposite -Wall providing spaced apart securing supports.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

LUCA n. RoUNsEVILLE. 

